He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul.
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Quotes tagged ‘Nature’
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
What enlivens the landscape is a moon sharply imprinted on the sky and a few soiled shadows below.
Ask for love, and the sky will unveil itself layer by layer, its naked blue flame waiting only your blindness in return.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
They are incomprehensible, the things of this earth. The lure of waters. The lure of fruits.
Let’s talk about how seasons change; how ice thaws and autumn leaves fall and even flowers only blossom for one season each year but their brevity doesn’t make their presence any less beautiful or real.
"It’s the kind of night where you know what the moon feels like,it’s the kind of night where you realize just how much stardust runs through your veins,it’s the kind of night where the words flow out of you as if you’ve never written before,it’s the kind of night where you finally find yourself agai…
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
She told me that when she was a child growing up on a farm in rural Virginia, she would be out working in the fields when she would sometimes hear a poem coming toward her — hear it rushing across the landscape at her, like a galloping horse. Whenever this happened, she knew exactly what she had to…
The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.
She tried to find the place in her heart where her life was anchored, but she couldn’t, so she closed her eyes and pressed the palms of her hands against the earth, making sure it was there.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Take a walk in the woods (alone), And there you will find all of the questions That remain unanswered in your mind.
I want to touch every grain of sand on every beach and swim in every ocean so I can tell you how different the waters are. I want to learn to say hello in every language and sleep under different skylines so I can tell you how different the stars are. I want to the hear the magic that I know is in t…
Be like the flowing river, Silent in the night. Be not afraid of the dark. If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back. If there are clouds in the sky, Remember, clouds, like the river, are water. So, gladly reflect them too, In your own tranquil depths
A good river is nature's life work in song.
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their live…
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.